1 Chapter Two

" Mother, you can't refuse to go for this, you know I love science!" Nick retorted. " you are my son and can refuse you to do anything to protect you." Mrs. Cruz reprimanded, " I brought you into this world and I wouldn't like it if your so called science took your life. Have you considered the fact that you could die? leave me alone?" nick told his mum all about the safety of the procedure but she was adamant abut changing her mind.

That night Nick felt uneasy and failed to sleep. He kept thinking about what his mum had said to him. He really loved her and wouldn't even imagine being the cause of her suffering.

At 3 o' clock in the morning he had made up his mind. He was not going to let the fear of the unknown determine his decisions. This this in mind and strong conviction, he slept.

Natasha had hurried to the Institute and registered her name. she was very excited and found out that was going to be first. She got home and took a bath and slept.

The work men from Mushota's farm had finished their work and went to register themselves for the project. They did all this and came back to the farm even before their boss came home.

The following day, the people that had stressed their need to be volunteers were all lined up by the hundreds. Some were tall glasses of water and others were recently just from taking the arrow to the knee. Nick came out the bed that morning full of mixed emotions. He prepared himself. He put on a grey sweater vest on a blue shirt, silky black trousers and made his way for the door.

He found himself at the back of the line when he finally got to the institute. Natasha was first. She entered the room and saw that the room was white as snow, blue as the sky and as righteous as paradise. The was a large central table that the person would be placed on. A spiral shaped drill was perpendicular to the table. It had a large needle and only two words written on it, " science skill. " after admiring the beauty of the lab, she was told to sit on the table and her reflexes were tested. Finally a local anesthetic was administered and she fell asleep. The implantation of the microchip had began. The chip is inserted into her brain and sealed.

She awakes as though every thing is ok. Only ten minutes later, she kicks the bucket!

She dies after a series of convolutions.

" Bring in the next person! " Mr. Patel yells.

The farm workers came in one by one and they all died.

After a series of people dying in the same way, the boss starts to feel bad and discouraged.

He starts to ask if anyone is left and to his dismay, no one is left. He is just not satisfied, so he goes outside to look. There he finds Nick sleeping at the very end of the once was queue. "Wake up! " he shouts. Nick awakes with great shock and recollects the data of where he is and what he is doing there. The boss tells him to go inside and test the same process. "Where are the others? "he asks, " I never saw or heard them leave." " You were sleeping, how do you suppose you could have heard them leave? "

" Good point! "Nick remarked.

He was eager to get started and so he quickly found himself on the table ready for anything they had for him.

The boss orders for the lights to be turned on above Nick. These induce sleep in him like all others before him. Nick starts to feel drowsy and falls asleep. While he is lost in sleep state, the boss and other engineers and scientists open his head. They drill a hole through his forehead and spray anti coagulating solution on to his cavity. The microchip is taken the glass casing and placed into his head. The chip is activated. With the others, they only activated the chip after the person had woken.

The filled and sealed him up.Anxious they slowly waited the fate of Nick. They woke him up and first it seemed as though he was dead, because there was no movement from him. Then a big loud yawn came from the table they had placed Nick on, " Good morning," he yawned, " what another boring day! " " Far from it my survivor. " Mr. Patel announced.

Looking around Nick found himself in a laboratory and not his bed in his house. He felt everything from time he spoke to his mother was a blur. He pleaded for forgiveness from the boss and to his amazement , he was awarded forgiveness. In fact the boss suggested he take the rest of the day off. Not willing to question such good opportunity to sleep, he quickly left the laboratory for fear his boss would change his mind.

When he was outside he felt like he had missed part of his life the previous couple of hours. As he walked through the town to his home, he read poster that brought in some light to the state of mind he was feeling. He found out the project had started only two hours ago. Did I … I couldn't have… were the thoughts going through his mind. " Fine, " he shrugged, " if this is really true I should have enhanced brain power." He looked the part in the article that talked about thee advantages or even new abilities he would posses after undergoing the test. He found nothing. It is all a bad dream! He thought, he told himself all he needed was some sleep.

He got home and immediately fell asleep.

At the laboratory, the boss was super excited, but he could not show it. He asked the scientists if the implant was a success and they told him a big yes. All through the lab was joy and victory. The scientists hugged each other and gave each the million dollar smile. In light of this glee the boss decided to excuse himself and make a phone call.

" Hello, hello! " he saluted, " Sir the implantation was a success! " " Good to hear, I hope all that publicity will not affect our plan as they were progressing in absence of the popularity." The voice said. Mr. Patel assured him all the works were going on as planned. The voice from the telephone threated that if he at all failed to deliver, his head would roll. The call was cut by the man on the other side of the call.

Mr. Patel fearing for his life called a camera crew and had them have the address of their new exceptional employee.

As Nick slept he started to have bad dreams. He was in this building on the farms of some local district. He had seen before him a situation as from a scene from a crime movie. A woman and her two children were shot dead on the spot. The killer maniacally laughed. Then the turned to face him and started running towards him. He run for his life. This kept repeating itself all day until he had decided he had had enough of sleeping.

He decides to take a walk. On the walk he starts to hum a song he doesn't know the words to or even the song in question. He finds this weird and just brushes it off. He keeps doing this for ten minutes the he realizes that the initial song he was sing changed like eighteen songs ago. " Ok, this is weird, but this isn't interesting at all." he says.

He decides to head back home and take a cup of coffee. No sooner does he arrive home than a pest control van drives into his yard. He waits. Then comes a knock on the door and he answers the knock. He gets to door and find two big men there. " Can I help you with something? " he asked. " Yes! We are from the Pest Control Company and we had noticed that there is a bug going round the city and have decided to freely fumigate the houses in this area. " the biggest of them said. He was wearing a white cap, blue t-shirt and an overall over it. The other was big but not as big. He had the same get up as his associate.

Nick was reluctant in letting them in until they produced an official warrant to carry out their task. He let them. They got through and started there work. He left them to it.

As they carried out their task, Nick came asked them a weird question, not to them but to himself, " Do you have Dahua's A211K02 2 MP HDCVI Camera for vast coverage and superior image details. The 2 MP HDCVI series leverages existing coax infrastructures to deliver forensic-level images seamlessly and over long distances?"

They looked at him puzzled. " What? " they asked, " I'm sorry, don't mind me. " Nick apologized.

They finished their work while he was in the sitting room. They left.

On their way out Nick thanked them and the company as well. The two men got into the van and made a call, " Hello, Sir, we have installed the cameras! " they said. " Good, now get out there now! Before your cover is blown. " the man told them.

The evening was upon the town and Nick just wanted to watch T.V. He got into his sofa and got comfortable. After being comfortable he realized that the remote was in the next room and he did not feel like moving to get the remote. He simply wished the T.V was on and at channel 112, Studio Universal. He closed his eyes and started to enjoy the comfort of the sofa. Not long the T.V turned on and was at studio universal airing his favorite movie 'The Mummy.' Jumping out of the sofa he screamed and himself falling to the ground and yelping for he had hurt himself on the floor. The T.V was on. How could this have happened?

He then recalled his lazy wish and thought that couldn't be the case. He decided to try it again and change the channel to Boomerang, it worked!

" Oh my molly, this is…. this is…." he failed to finish the sentence. He then came to the conclusion that the test was the cause. He wanted no more things to happen so he got to bed quicker than you get wet when water is spilled on you.

The next morning, with the incident still fresh on his mind he decided to go to work very early to ensure he gets the longest possible time with the boss to get answers from him. He gets to work at roughly 8 o'clock, even Chisela is not here yet. He waits for the boss and he shows up within two minutes of his arrival. He presents himself before the boss. This time only, the boss greets him with a smile, a menacing but still friendly smile.

" I'm assuming you have a lot of questions, before you do ask, allow me to explain." Mr. Patel says. " When we wanted volunteers for the project, it was to test the new prototype microchip we invented. This chip is very special and it has special features too. Before I proceed, we are not the company you think we are, we have some ..."he said then paused. " Sir, can I be part of that secret company? " he asked. I want some excitement in my life. He thought to himself. " Yes you can, but you have to sign here." The boss said. He signed. Then the boss went on to tell him that he was the only person that the chip worked on. He told him about the features of the chip. He said that the chip could the possessor to have power to control all forms of technology. The chip could give you the power control the internet, the FBI's Intranet and database, the possibilities are endless. Then Nick asked why a person was needed for this project why not just use a computer. The boss answered him saying that the human mind has more potential and capability to harness a lot of information at once as compared to computers which can only store, at present only fifty petabytes.

This is exciting and Nick feels he going to have an interesting life with this new – old company. But he starts to feel qualms.